US military families living in South Korea must leave the country as soon as possible, warns Senator Lindsey Graham, amid a missile standoff with North Korea that the lawmaker says risks military confrontation.
Speaking to CBS on Sunday, the South Carolina Republican said the idea of sending spouses and children to the South was “crazy” and only American troops should be sent there.
“So, I want them to stop sending dependents, and I think it’s now time to start moving American dependents out of South Korea,” he said.
There are currently around 28,500 American troops stationed in South Korea in part to counter what Washington describes as North Korea’s aggression.
The US military has an evacuation plan in place for the peninsula that it has tested on several occasions to simulate war conditions.
Graham’s comments came after Pyongyang successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), ending over 60 days of…